AI trades already worse than dotcom while earnings accelerate, trader argues

abhiadesai · x · 2026-11-03

Trader Andreas Steno argues that AI-related trades are already worse than the dotcom era in many sectors, even as underlying earnings keep accelerating — "amazing time to be alive and not particularly logical."

The reblogger attaches a page from Harvard economist Richard Zeckhauser's paper Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable, drawing a parallel with David Ricardo's famous pre-Waterloo bond bet: under unknowable outcomes, the key is spotting bets with thin competition, an eager seller, and asymmetric payoff.

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